The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.
If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.
The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be. '
A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.
Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.
You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.