Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.