To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.

But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.