I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.