"You can make a sketch of St. Francis: you could only make a plan of St. Thomas, like the plan of a labyrinthine city." Chapter 1, p. 1

"The saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint is often a martyr; he is mistaken for a poison because he is an antidote. He will generally be found restoring the world to sanity by exaggerating whatever the world neglects, which is by no means always the same element in every age." Chapter 1, p. 5

"It will not be possible to conceal much longer from anybody the fact that St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the great liberators of the human intellect." Chapter 1, p. 13

"For instance, it was a very special idea of St. Thomas that Man is to be studied in his whole manhood; that a man is not a man without his body, just...