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

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.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

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.

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

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