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

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.