We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity

In my end is my beginning

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment

Those who trust us educate us

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood