In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.