It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Begin to increase your gift, talent, potentials, self-development if you want to be prosperous

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.