"Next time you feel alone or think that no one really understands your secret thoughts, take heart. Someone does know …"

"He is noted for his zeal, industry, and courtesy, and is held in high esteem by all classes."

"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…"

"The Catholic religion is not only holding its own, but advancing rapidly in Newfoundland. The most harmonious relatio…"

"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…"