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.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

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

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

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

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.