It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.