In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.