Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.