An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

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

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

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

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.