It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.

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.

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

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.