The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.