Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

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.

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.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.