“Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.”

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Haste is of the Devil.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.

Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.