You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

Attitudes are more important than facts.