Custom determines what is agreeable.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.