The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Shallow men believe in luck.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.