» We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
» The worst men often give the best advice.
» Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
» America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
» Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
» The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
» Right human relations is the only true peace.
» Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
» In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
» I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.