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.

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.

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.

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