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.

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.

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

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