Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.