What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.