The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Only He who made man makes man happy.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.