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.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

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

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.

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.

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

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.