The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.