Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

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

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.