Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

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

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

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

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.