If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

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

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

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