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All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the powe...more

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I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h

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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes...more

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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

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The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

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There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that...more