To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.