Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

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.

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.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.