You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.