To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.