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.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.