It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.