The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, “My dear, we live in an age of transition.”
The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
Don’t break the silence unless you can improve on it.
The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.