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.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

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

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.