Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.