The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.