I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.