To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.