It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating or opposing the claims of this or that party in the church, they turn away with a smile such as men yield to the talk of children. They have no time, they would say, for that kind of thing. They have enough to do in trying to faithfully practice what is beyond dispute.