We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

When I touch a human hand, I touch heaven.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.