God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

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

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

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

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.