I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.