List of points

'The flesh though dressed in silk'… This is my only comment when I see you waver before the temptation that hides its impurity under pretexts of art, of science…, of charity!

This is my only comment set in the words of an old proverb: 'The flesh is flesh though dressed in silk.'

There is no excuse for those who could be scholars and are not.

Study. Study in earnest. If you are to be salt and light, you need knowledge, ability.

Or do you imagine that an idle and lazy life will entitle you to receive infused knowledge?

Culture, culture! Very good: let us be second to none in striving for and possessing it.

But, culture is a means and not an end.

You worry only about building up your knowledge. And what you have to build up is your soul. Then you will work as you ought — for Christ. In order that he may reign in the world, there must be some people who, with their eyes fixed on heaven, seek to acquire prestige in all human activities, so that they can carry out quietly — and effectively — an apostolate within their professions.