Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

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

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.