Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.

Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven.

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

Fight the darkness. Fight for the light.

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.