To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.