My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

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.

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.

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.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.