Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

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.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.