One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

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.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.