Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.