There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

Give, expecting nothing there of.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.