He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.