Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

Forgive what you can't excuse.

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position on the animal.

You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.