None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Love dies only when growth stops.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.