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

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

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

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.

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

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; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.