It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.