I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.