When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.