The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.

An intelligent organization is not about the “cleverness” of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.

the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers

Every challenge presents a good chance for learning something new.

Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.