When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.

One of the best things in the gospel of Jesus is the stress it lays on small things. It ascribes more value to quality than to quantity; it teaches that God does not ask how much we do, but how we do it.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.