“God is not only true, but Truth itself.”

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.

The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

For you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.

You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

How is it so easy for you to be kind to people? he asked. Milk and honey dripped from my lips as I answered cause people have not been kind to me.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.