The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.