Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Effective action is always unjust.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.