The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.