The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.