As for us, we are, so to speak, men of few thoughts, few words, little strength—and little fecundity.

St. Thomas and St. Augustine are the Aristotle and the Plato of theology. But St. Thomas is more Aristotle than St. Augustine is Plato.

All that one has learned by a certain method, one believes one knows, because one knows the method.

Descriptive writers.—And what do they do but make us more attentive to our sensations, more attentive to all the objects that cause them, and consequently more dominated by all our senses? One can answer etc.