Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

No one ever dies an atheist.

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.