It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.