It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.