the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

You can't have genius without patience.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.