Aquinas on charity

Not our organized charity, but caritas more generally. He's wrong in a way and right in a way, but then again, aren't we all?

Every accident is inferior to substance if we consider its being, since substance has being in itself, while an accident has its being in another: but considered as to its species, an accident which results from the principles of its subject is inferior to its subject, even as an effect is inferior to its cause; whereas an accident that results from a participation of some higher nature is superior to its subject, in so far as it is a likeness of that higher nature, even as light is superior to the diaphanous body. On this way charity is superior to the soul, in as much as it is a participation of the Holy Ghost.

When I was in college I couldn't stand stuff like this, but now it's kind of charming, like watching a goofy baby video on Youtube.