Children are all foreigners.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.