By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.
I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.