The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
