Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.