A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

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

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.