Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

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

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.