It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.