Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

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.

… mess is the material from which life and creativity are built …

Your love for me should be a passionate desire to pray for me daily.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.