The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.