Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.