I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.