Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

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

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.