Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.