If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.