Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.