What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.