“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience ”

“It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else”

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money”

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves”

“Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”