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

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.

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

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

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.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.