Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.
In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.
A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.