Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.