How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.