No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.