No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

All good government must begin at home.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it.

Most people don't accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others.

That’s kind of creepy,

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.