“College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.”

“There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.”

“A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”

“I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest—I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

“The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.”

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”

“If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.”