Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.