We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.