[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: 'Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land.'.

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

A beam from the everlasting sun of God.Rude and unresponsive are the stones;Yet in them divine things lie concealed;I hear their imprisoned chant:–“We are fragments of the universe,Chips of the rock whereon God laid the foundation of the world:.