It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

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

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.