Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Give, expecting nothing there of.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.