What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of 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.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

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