Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.