The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given "disease." The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.