Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.