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.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

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

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