Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.