“The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”

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

“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”

“If the great paradox of Christianity means anything it means this- that we must take the crown in our hands, and go hunting in dry places and dark corners of the earth until we find the one man who feels himself unfit to wear it. Carlyle was quite wrong; we have not got to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule. Rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can't.”

“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”

“Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.”

“A man who is perpetually thinking of whether this race or that race is strong, of whether this cause or thatcause is promising, is the man who will never believe in anything long enough to make it succeed.”