The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Prevention is better than cure.