A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.