A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?