Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.