Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.