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

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

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.