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

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

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

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

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.