A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.