Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves they run about loose hungering for employment and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations which have all to do with making things already made is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith and inconsistent with it. But all science in fact rests on a basis of faith for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed steady gains in...
Age does not depend upon years but upon temperament and health. Some men are...
Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and...
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining...
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind...
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death...
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy...
Every parting is a form of death as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the...
I believe though I do not comprehend and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp...
I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves and...
And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing I despatch...
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India......
My faith inasmuch as I have any is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell...
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing and far...