When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.