The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

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.

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

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.