Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.