1. “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
2. “Beware the man of a single book.”
3. “We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both, have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”
4. The things that we love tell us what we are.”
5. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
6. “Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
7. “Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
8. “The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.”
9. “The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”
10. “Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”