I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.