“ Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. ”
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.
~ John Henry Newman
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.
