People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

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

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

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 not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.