I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.