He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.