I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.