If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.