It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

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