Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.