The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

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 wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

Whatever you do, foolish or wise, important or unimportant, do with love and enthusiasm.

Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.