To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything ... He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what…

To try to make others comfortable is the only way to get right comfortable ourselves, and that comes partly of not being able to think so much about ourselves …

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man - that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Pensions are the favors of the powerful, and dangerous to any great intellect. It is only here and there down throughout the ages that a Voltaire is born who d…