Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness.