Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.