Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the….

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perfora….

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent..

Do what we can, summer will have its flies..

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed ….

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid..

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?.

The instinct of the people is right..

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us..

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often..

Sorrow makes us all children again..

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplish….

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger..

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man..

Nature abhors the old..

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are ….

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out ….

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship..

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact..

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deal….

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor..