Faith Is Illuminative, Not Operative; It Does

May He Support Us All The Day Long, Till The Shades Lengthen, And The Evening Comes, And The Busy World Is Hushed, And The Fever Of Life Is Over, And Our Work Is Done! Then In His Mercy May He Give Us A Safe Lodging, And A Holy Rest, And Peace At The Last.

Evil Has No Substance Of Its Own, But Is Only The Defect, Excess, Perversion, Or Corruption Of That Which Has Substance.

To Holy People The Very Name Of Jesus Is A Name To Feed Upon, A Name To Transport. His Name Can Raise The Dead And Transfigure And Beautify The Living.

Knowledge Is One Thing, Virtue Is Another.

Brutes Gaze On Sights, They Are Arrested By Sounds; And What They See And What They Hear Are Sights And Sounds Only. The Intellectof Man, On The Contrary, Energises As Well As His Eye Or Ear, And Perceives In Sights Or Sounds Something Beyond Them. It Seizes And Unites What The Senses Present To It; It Grasps And Forms What Need Not Be Seen Or Heard Except In Detail. It Discerns In Lines And Colors, Or In Tones, What Is Beautiful And What Is Not. It Gives Them A Meaning, And Invests Them With An Idea.