Such people have no time to count the dark linings of the silvery clouds; they realize that God and man together do not fail.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

It fits a man to be a leader; it secures a following.

A bishop who was present at the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore has told me that when Father Hecker appeared before the assembled prelates and theologians in advocacy of Catholic literature as a missionary force, the picture was inspiring, and that the hearers, receiving a Pentecostal fire within their bosoms, felt as if America were to be at once converted.
So would it have been if there had been in America a sufficient number of Heckers.

He had his critics.