No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.