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The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Youth is life's beautiful moment.

Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.