Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask assistance from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness is part of our very nature.

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.