Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

The end excuses any evil.