God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

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

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.