The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

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

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.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.