Before you can do something, you must first be something.

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.