O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none receives a gift from the throne of mercy except through thee.

If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.