This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

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

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.