What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

All promise outruns performance.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.