The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.