When marrying, ask yourself: do you believe you will enjoy talking with this person into your old age?

The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

President Obama's respect for the Constitution does not extend to freedom of religion - his administration has forced religious businessowners to pay for insurance plans that cover activities in violation of religious precepts.

In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.