I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.