We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

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

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

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

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

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