Adversity makes men remember God.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.