List of points

Paradox: sanctity is more attainable than learning, but it is easier to be learned than to be a saint.

There is no excuse for those who could be scholars and are not.

If you are to serve God with your mind, to study is a grave obligation for you.

Books: don't buy them without advice from a Christian who is learned and prudent. It's so easy to buy something useless or harmful.

How often a man thinks he is carrying a book under his arm, and it turns out to be a load of rubbish!

Study. Study in earnest. If you are to be salt and light, you need knowledge, ability.

Or do you imagine that an idle and lazy life will entitle you to receive infused knowledge?

Culture, culture! Very good: let us be second to none in striving for and possessing it.

But, culture is a means and not an end.

How can you dare use that spark of divine intelligence — your mind — in anything but in giving glory to your Lord?