There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.