“My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.”

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.

We can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

And when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.