As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

He who is brave is free.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

No human creature can give orders to love.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.