In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

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

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

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

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

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.