That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.