My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. Indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing you think about. And the oxygen has been sucked out of the credit markets.
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.
Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.