Real action is in silent moments.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Our prayers are prophets.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

There is a crack in everything God has made