A child is an angel dependent on man

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.