When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

In literature imitations do not imitate.