Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.