O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity