Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.