It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.