To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

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.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet

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