If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.