Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.