If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.

Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly ... given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

A wise person escapes temptation and leaves no forwarding address.

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.