Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.