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

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

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