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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness, each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked, each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
Accept good advice gracefully, as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Train a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
This started off as a father-daughter adventure, and it's gotten wonderfully out of hand…I'm going to fly till I die.
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.
