God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.