"Growth is the only evidence of life." — John Henry Newman

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.