Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.

for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven.

My words are like the stars that never change.

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Music is an incitement to love.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition