But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of crit…

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Each minute bursts in the burning room, The great globe reels in the solar fire, Spinning the trivial and unique away. (How all things flash! How all things fl…

Prima sapientiae clavis definitur, assidua scilicet seu frequens interrogation : Dubitando enim ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?