As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.