We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.