Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.