God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

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

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.