Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.