There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.