Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.