In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

Children need models rather than critics.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.