One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?