"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals."

"A cow has a more certain faith than a hundred thousand Papists."

"If a woman grows weary and at last dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die in childbearing—she is there to do it."

"We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road."

"I am not afraid of a pope or a cardinal, but of a little bird that sings in the tree."