What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

A scholar knows no boredom.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.