Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.

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

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

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

A child is an angel dependent on man

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.