Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Love is the wine of existence.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.