The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.

He who does not research has nothing to teach.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.