Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

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

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

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.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.