No decay is possible to the diamond.

He believed to the extent of his powers.

"Credo in Patrem," he often exclaimed.

Moreover, he drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love.

It was in that quarter, quia multum amavit,--because he loved much--that he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry.