It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.