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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

—  William Lyon Phelps

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

—  William Lyon Phelps

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

—  William Lyon Phelps

I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women, but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.

—  William Lyon Phelps

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

—  William Lyon Phelps

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

—  William Lyon Phelps