Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

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

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

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.