A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

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

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

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.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.