Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.