Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.