To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.