You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.