He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith.