Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.
John Henry NewmanBrutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.
John Henry NewmanFaith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
John Henry NewmanWhen men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
John Henry NewmanI wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.
John Henry Newman