Idleness is paralysis.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Religion implies revelation.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us.

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. “You came!” Jake shouted. “You really came!” “I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.