We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

Some people are proud of their humility.

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.