Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.