If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
From Thomas Aquinas
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
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