“Very good laws may be ill timed.”

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

They may not know what I’m doing, but they know I’m doing something!

You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Wake up knowing that Allah is greater than any obstacle you may face today.

St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.