Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.

God answered the prayers of animals.

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

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.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking.