We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.