God enters by a private door into every individual.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.