We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

Never repeat old grievances.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.