Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities.

I pray that the Holy Spirit puts His Words in my mouth, His movement in my heart and His direction in my path.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.