Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice, had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

He held it safer to be of the religion of the King or Queen that were in being, for he knew that he came raw into the world, and accounted it no point of wisdom to be broiled out of it.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore! He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin, That touch'd the ruff, that touched Queen Bess' chin.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

No answer is also an answer.

A book is the only immortality.

Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.