It Is Often Said That Second Thoughts

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.

Knowledge Is One Thing, Virtue Is Another.

What Can This World Offer Comparable With That Insight Into Spiritual Things, That Keen Faith, That Heavenly Peace, That High Sanctity, That Everlasting Righteousness, That Hope Of Glory, Which They Have, Who In Sincerity Love And Follow Our Lord Jesus Christ?

Fear Not That Thy Life Shall Come To An End, But Rather Fear That It Shall Never Have A Beginning.

Let Us Put Ourselves Into His Hands, And Not Be Startled Though He Leads Us By A Strange Way, A Mirabilis Via, As The Church Speaks. Let Us Be Sure He Will Lead Us Right, That He Will Bring Us To That Which Is, Not Indeed What We Think Best, Nor What Is Best For Another, But What Is Best For Us.