Poetry is devil's wine.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.