Self -deception once yielded to, all other deceptions follow naturally more and more.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.

Politics is a game of compromise . . . faith isn’t.

A vein of Poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

The illuminable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.