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

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.