The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.