An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

God does not play dice .

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Light is the symbol of truth.

He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.

Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him.

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.

Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.

Time and I against any two.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since that the truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accursed And does blaspheme his breed?

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.