There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.

I do not know myself and God forbid that I should

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.