People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.