It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.