There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.