The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

We live in a magic time, Kanefionn Stoneweaver. Who is to say that it is not you who create these marvels?

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.