In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.