Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.