The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.