Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.