The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.