Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.