You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.