The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.