None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.