Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?