Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

The secret of making progress is to get started.