it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

... 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.

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

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

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

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!