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Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

Sydney Carter

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.