Quotes from Joseph Cook

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

God is making commerce His missionary.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.