A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.