If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. - John Lancaster Spalding

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one’s self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.