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.

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

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

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

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

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.