As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.

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

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.

Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.