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?

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

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 is a transcendent power in example.