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

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

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

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.