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.

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

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

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

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.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.