All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

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.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

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