This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.