The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.