Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.
Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
Whenever I pick up a jacket and it's heavy, I think, 'Oh, I don't want to wear that. '
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.