God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

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

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

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.