Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.