Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.