When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.