the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.