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Time hath a taming hand.
Man is emphatically self-made.
Calculation never made a hero.
Growth is the only evidence of life.
Go down again - I dwell among the people.
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.
It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.