Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.