Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.

Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.