Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

Every joy is beyond all others.