Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.