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 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.