All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

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

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.