“The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.”

“No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.”

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of...”

“If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate and assuage the grief of others, and by taking from them the sorrow and heaviness of life to rest...”

“Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share thei...”

“It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“What people these days watch!?...Nothing useful!Science proofs that people watch shit over and over and over and over and over and over.”

“In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.”

“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”