“French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.”

“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together”

“None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

“Is our Heaven your God, and is your God our Heaven?' she inquired.'They are one and the same,' he replied...'There is only one true God. He has many names.''Then anywhere upon the round earth, by whatever seas, those who believe in any God believe in the One?' she asked.'And so are brothers,' he said, agreeing.'And if I do not believe in any?' she inquired willfully.'God is patient,' he said. 'God waits. Is there not eternity?”

“It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.”