We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?