We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

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.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.