The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.