“We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 239-240

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Catholic bishop 1840–1916

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