"I was tired of painting. So many collectors bought paintings and locked them in bank vaults. The stained-glass window…"

"The window I'm proudest of is at the Granby courthouse. … When the building was inaugurated ...the Bishop of Saint-Hy…"

"In making up the assessment of due salary, Christian masters with a conscience in them must not only be just, that is…"

"If it is, at all times, our duty to have recourse to prayer, to obtain from God that He would bless our labors, and g…"

"What we need most in our vast domains is population, but few will deny that the home product is always the best adapt…"

"The amount of work before the missionaries may be better imagined than described, but though unworthy and poor instru…"

"Beloved alike by Protestants and Catholics, and revered for his gentleness and his apostolic zeal on behalf of the po…"

"I have tried to proceed methodically and with all the clearness possible, so as to be easily understood by persons no…"

"The episcopal dignity is no favor, it is a heavy burden, it is a ministry terrible to the angels themselves, the dang…"

"We had to penetrate into a country never yet visited by a Catholic priest. The rivers, lakes, mountains, prairies, fo…"