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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Vanity is but the surface.