Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

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.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.