There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.