Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.