Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously. - John Lancaster Spalding

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.

If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.