Of two Evils we take the less.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.