An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.