“We never love a person, but only qualities.”

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.

Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?