The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
