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

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

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

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.