What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.