nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

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

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.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

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.

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

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.