Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.