Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.