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.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

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

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.