The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.