and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

God bless us, every one!

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

Jesus Christ is the mighty Saviour.

You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

Where God works, He works with men that work.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.