We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

It's better seeking the basic in learning something.

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.