What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.