“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

“The things that ask the most of us are the things most worth having.”

“Our parents teach us the very first things we learn. They teach us about hearts.”

“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.”

“It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we read, and shows us that the things which the writer commends to us were never worth very much; yet I might equally well have come to the opposite conclusion, that reading teaches us to place a higher value on life, a value which we did not know how to appreciate, and the true extent of which we come to realize only through the book.”

“In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.”