It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

People are always nice, so I can't complain. My name used to be SNL! More and more, people call me by my name.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.