Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.