Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.