It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

Religion is caught, not taught.