John Henry Newman Quotations

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

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