Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

You look for one thing and you find another.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

Beware of men bearing flowers.