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

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

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

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.