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

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.