The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.