The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exer... - John Henry Newman

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

"I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards."

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."