Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.