The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.