Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.