"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."

"It is lawful for a judge to condemn a man to death, if he is a murderer."

"The killing of evildoers is not contrary to divine justice, but is in accord with it."

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

"Woman is in some respects defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes fro…"