Private lives are more important than public reputations.
Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all.
In other words, the world might need even less of its new charity, if it had a little more of the old humility.....
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Materialists and madmen never have doubts
An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be an overflow into the lives of others.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated...
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.