All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.