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.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.