Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.
Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
No people find each other more absurd than lovers.
Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.
When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
Pilate was merciful till it became risky.
