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.
如果我们中的任何天主教徒,没有必要的科学知识,将科学审查显示为错误的东西作为教条提出,我们信仰的真理就会在异教徒中成为笑柄。
亲戚都不归附,也就不要对外办交际。
译文:在兵败的时候接受任务,在危机患难之间奉行使命,到如今已经有二十一年了。
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.