Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.