By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

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

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.