Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.