Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.