Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.