I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Reason is also choice.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.