When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.