But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.