God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garmentBut even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.