There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.

But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material".

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul

To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.

At the shrine if friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.

He who opens a school door closes a prison.

It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she had never thought of her face.