conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

You can't have genius without patience.

... 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.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

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.

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 fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.