Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate his mysteries; this is Himself. It is the universal devotion. No one can be without it, in order to be a Christian. How can a man be a Christian who does not worship the living Presence of Christ?