Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

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.