The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.