[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.