The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.