The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity … in fact our movement is Christian.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

Use your power gently.