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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8, 25 February 1909, Page 283

Be constant to your purpose, and desirous only of the praises which belong to patience and discretion. ,

To judge of the real importance of an individual, .one should think of the effect his death would produce.

We reduce life to the pettiness of our daily living; we should exalt our living to the grandeur of life.

A devout thought, a pious desire, a holy .purpose is better than a great state or an earthly kingdom.

Kindness is the music of good will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play Heaven's sweetest tunes on earth

Diogenes being asked, {V What is that beasfc which, is the most dangerous?' replied, 'Of wild beasts the bite of a slanderer and of tame beasts that of the flatterer '

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do for others any good turn in our power.

There is one place where we may study the necessity of religion and -with deep profit — by a man's death-bed. Death dispels illusions and brings back to the realities of life. Many a life-long argument as Jo the uselessness of religion has been disproved at the hour of death,