True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.

If 90% of the people, go straight to the hell.So, where do we live now. 11.05.12

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.