Thomas Aquinas

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

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.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

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

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.