What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

Love is sentimental measles.