Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

How can we win souls for Christ? We must continue to preach the gospel of salvation.

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

Most people overestimate what they can do in a month and underestimate what they can do in an hour.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.