If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.