“It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.”

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.

To sing is to pray twice.

He that is jealous is not in love.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Truth is not private property.

You know, I don’t only play for the record books.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.

So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.