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

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

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

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.