If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.