Distance is the soul of beauty.

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.