Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.