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

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.