If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.