When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.