the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?