Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

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

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"