God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.