To sing is to pray twice.
Poetry is devil's wine.
Only He who made man makes man happy.
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."