Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.