Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.