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

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

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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