Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.