It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.