The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.