If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.