Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is right when he insists that prayer, in its plainest meaning, is a petition addressed to God. When Jesus laid the duty of petition upon his disciples, He went on to assert the reasonableness of man's asking and God's answering. Jesus argues along the line of reason that, if an earthly parent does the best in his power for his children, ... the Almighty and All-Wise Love, of which human love is only the shadow, will do better still for His great family; and therefore our Master teaches that men ought everywhere to pray, without fear, with hope, and without doubt.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.