Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.