There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.