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

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

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

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.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

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.