In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

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.

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.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.