For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.