One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.