The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .