faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.