Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Emotion is always new.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

I think, therefore I doubt.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.