True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

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.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

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

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.