Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

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