Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.