A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.