When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

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

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.