I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.