Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores & sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it. Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes…

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

I would not so dishonour God as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in…

O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.

The vicar's right; he says that we Are ever wayward, weak and blind; He tells us in his homily Ambition ruins all mankind;