The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.

Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

I think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it's not something I want to think about every day.

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms.