I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I st... - Thomas Aquinas

"Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."

"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."

"The things that we love tell us what we are."

"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."

"The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is."