Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

I am made to tremble and I fear!

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.