If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

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!

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

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