The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

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

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.