Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.

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

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.