Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.