What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.