St. Jerome Quotes
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.
Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like
If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.
Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.
True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.
Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.
