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.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

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.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.