There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.