Surprise is the secret of joy.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.