Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.