The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.