God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.