Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

There's only one story, the story of your life.