The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

We pass for what we are.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.