Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

Civilization depends on morality.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.