The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.