Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Discover what you are.