Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim wisdom the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour for mankind employed and then when most you share it best enjoyed.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

From principles is derived probability but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Truth like gold is to be obtained not by its growth but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A truer image of the world I think is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat allotted to them on a proper basis.

God is stronger than their strength more loving than their uttermost love and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others they have obtained the infallible proof that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.