Convictions do not imply reasons.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

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

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

... 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.

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