It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.

The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.