To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.