It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.