The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.