"The question of human procreation, like every other question which touches human life, involves more than the limited aspects specific to such disciplines as biology, psychology, demography or sociology."

"The marriage of those who have been baptized is, in addition, invested with the dignity of a sacramental sign of grace, for it represents the union of Christ and His Church."

"Married love is also faithful and exclusive of all other, and this until death."

"With regard to man's innate drives and emotions, responsible parenthood means that man's reason and will must exert control over them."

"Was Paul VI's papacy a heroic one? In a way, I think the answer is yes. But his heroism was essentially tragic."

"I for one find it much easier to sympathise with the Arnoldian gloom of Paul looking quietly at the ruin of the Church than with the glad-handing U2 world-tour optimism of St. John Paul II,"

"If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase."

"Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes."

"It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God."

"We find sin the perversion of human freedom, and the deep cause of death, because it is separation from God, the source of life...and then, in its turn, the occasion and effect of an intervention in us and in our world of an obscure agent, the Devil. Evil is not merely a lack of something, but an effective agent, a living spiritual being, perverted and perverting. A terrible reality. Mysterious and frightening. It is contrary to the teaching of the Bible and the Church to refuse to recognize the existence of such a reality, or to regard it as a principle in itself which does not draw its origin from God like every other creature; or to explain it as a pseudoreality, a conceptual and fanciful personification of the unknown causes of our misfortunes."

"it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing his Apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for his Church."

"Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?"

"Arma virumque cano."

"Illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti."

"Fata vocant."

"Nec morti esse locum."

"Si parva licet componere magnis."

"Alitur vitium, vivitque tegendo."

"Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus."

"Amor omnibus idem."

"Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis."

"Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas."

"Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes, Flumina amem sylvasque inglorius."

"O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis, Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus!"

"Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est."

"In primis venerare Deos."

"Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas."

"Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis paulatim."

"Umida solstitia atque hiemes orate serenas, agricolae."

"Audacibus annue coeptis."

"Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori."

"Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus."

"Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque."

"Carpent tua poma nepotes."

"Non omnia possumus omnes."

"Nunc scio quid sit Amor."

"Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem."

"Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo."

"Latet anguis in herba."

"Nunc omnis ager, nunc omnis parturit arbor; Nunc frondent sylvae, nunc formosissimus annus."

"Quae te dementia cepit!"

"Trahit sua quemque voluptas."

"O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori."

"Over the whole of the great poem of Virgil, over the whole Æneid, there rests an ineffable melancholy: not a rigid, a moody gloom, like the melancholy of Lucretius; no, a sweet, a touching sadness, but still a sadness; a melancholy which is at once a source of charm in the poem, and a testimony to its incompleteness. Virgil, as Niebuhr has well said, expressed no affected self-disparagement, but the haunting, the irresistible self-dissatisfaction of his heart, when he desired on his deathbed that his poem might be destroyed. A man of the most delicate genius, the most rich learning, but of weak health, of the most sensitive nature, in a great and overwhelming world; conscious, at heart, of his inadequacy for the thorough spiritual mastery of that world and its interpretation in a work of art; conscious of this inadequacy—the one inadequacy, the one weak place in the mighty Roman nature! This suffering, this graceful-minded, this finely-gifted man is the most beautiful, the most attractive figure in literary history; but he is not the adequate interpreter of the great period of Rome."

"Le poète de la latinité tout entière."

"Unless one is a moron, one always dies unsure of one's own value and that of one's works. Virgil himself, as he lay dying, wanted the Aeneid burned."

"It never occurs to me to place him among the Roman poets of the first order."

"O Virgile! ô poète! ô mon maître divin!"

"If you take from Virgil his diction and metre, what do you leave him?"