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.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.