The intellectual is not self-begotten; he is the son of the Idea, of the Truth, of the creative Word, the Life-giver immanent in His creation. When the thinker thinks rightly, he follows God step by step; he does not follow his own vain fancy. When he gropes and struggles in the effort of research, he is Jacob wrestling with the angel and “strong against God. (xviii)
It requires penetration and continuity and methodical effort, so as to attain a fullness of development which will correspond to the call of the Spirit, and to the resources that it has pleased Him to bestow on us. (3)
Ambition offends eternal truth by subordinating truth to itself (6)
A life with too ambitious an aim or one content with too low a level is a misdirected life. (xxii)
All roads but one are bad roads for you, since they diverge from the direction in which your action is expected and required. Do not prove faithless to God, to your brethren and to yourself by rejecting a sacred call. (5)
When the world does not like you it takes its revenge on you; if it happens to like, you, it takes its revenge still by corrupting you. Your only resource is to work far from the world, as indifferent to its judgments as you are ready to serve it.
Genius is long patience (8)
Things have value in exact proportion to what they cost. (253)
To understand a single thing thoroughly, we should understand all things. (141)
The half-informed man is not the man who knows only half things, but the man who only half knows things. (122)
Order is a necessity, but it must serve us, not we it. (194)
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