The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.