There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

Things never happen the same way twice.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.