It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

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.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.