There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.