... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

In every parting there is an image of death.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.