“To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?”

— Frederick William Faber, Spiritual Conferences (1859), Ch. I, § 4, p. 77

About Frederick William Faber

1814 – 1863

English Catholic priest and hymn writer.

“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.”

“Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take.”

“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.”

“Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.”

“In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.”

“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”