Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.