Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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.