Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Information is giving out.Communication is getting through.

Every believer is God's miracle.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]

Run it up the flagpole and see who slautes it.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.