If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is friendship set on fire.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.