I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
Lead kindly Light amid the encircling gloom Lead Thou me on! The night is dark and I am far from home – Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet I do not ask to see The distant scene – one step enough for me.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.