I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.