If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.