What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

I want to meet my God awake.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?