Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

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.

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.