Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

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

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.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

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