I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

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

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