So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.

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.

God alone can finish.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.