It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.