It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

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