No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.