Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: no two individuals are alike, and both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.

I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God does, he does so in Christ. And precisely that is Christianity. The creation was really only completed when God included himself in it. Before the coming of Christ, God was certainly in the creation, but as an invisible sign, like the watermark in paper. But the creation was completed by the Incarnation because God thereby included himself in it.

Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.