When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

The Devil invented gambling.