Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

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.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.