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.

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

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.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.