Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.