The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.