The Soul Is Dyed By

If We Feel That Any Habit Or Pursuit, Harmless In Itself, Is Keeping Us From God And Sinking Us Deeper In The Things Of Earth; If We Find That Things Which Others Can Do With Impunity Are For Us The Occasion Of Falling, Then Abstinence Is Our Only Course. Abstinence Alone Can Recover For Us The Real Value Of What Should Have Been For Our Help But Which Has Been An Occasion Of Falling. ... It Is Necessary That We Should Steadily Resolve To Give Up Anything That Comes Between Ourselves And God.

The Command, 'be Fruitful And Multiply', Was Promulgated, According To Our Authorities, When The Population Of The World Consisted Of Two Persons.

Religion Is Caught, Not Taught.

The Happiest People Seem To Be Those Who Have No Particular Cause For Being Happy Except That They Are So.

I Think Middle-age Is The Best Time, If We Can Escape The Fatty Degeneration Of The Conscience Which Often Sets In At About Fifty.