What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.