A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.