It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

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

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

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

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.