The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Science is the true theology.

In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.