Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.