A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress; that it is the sunshine of the mental and moral world, and that without it man will go back to the den of savagery, and wll become the fit associate of wild and ferocious beasts.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.