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.

Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.