I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.