The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.