I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.