I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
Man is emphatically self-made.
The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
Time hath a taming hand.
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
Reason is God’s gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Somehow I am necessary for God’s purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.