“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Train your mind to see the good in everything.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.