The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.