Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.