Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

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

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.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!

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.

By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.