White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.