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Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.

Every soul is a battlefield.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.

Service makes men competent.

The highest qualities of character ... must be earned.

Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

Commerce is a form of warfare.

Patience is passion tamed.

You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.

A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

Courage is caution overcome.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.