Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this day. I love the Protestant prayers of the English Church. And I love the stern and knotty argument, the sermon with heads and sequences, of the New England Congregationalist. For this catholicity Catholics have upbraided me, churchmen rebuked me, and dissenters denied that I had any religion at all.