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.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

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

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.