To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.

Love follows knowledge.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.