The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.