I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

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.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

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.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .