Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

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.