"O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me."

"Within a few days I will go to the papal Legate , and if he shall open a conversation on the subject as he did before, I will urge him to warn the Pope not to issue an excommunication , for which I th…"

"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who me…"

"You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is — but if you say so yourself you feel like a shit."

"A progeny of learning."