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

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.