I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.