God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.