Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.