God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.