Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.