Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

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

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.