With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.