Attitudes are more important than facts.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.