The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Go away... I'm alright.

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

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.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

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