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.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

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

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

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