We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

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.

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.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

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

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.