Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

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

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.