It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.