The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.

In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.