By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.