Love, and do what you like.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Custom is second nature.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements...

God is best known in not knowing him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

This world’s a bubble.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of...

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

He who labours, prays.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,” I am not He, but He made me.”

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who...

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or...

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

The purpose of all war is peace.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot...

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.