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.

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.

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.

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.

Do not be passive when you feel discouraged

An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge

I should like to know what sacrifices they make. I think it's the children who make the sacrifices. When I want to eat gooseberries and am not allowed to, the sacrifice is _mine_ not _Mother's_.

I receive Income from you, can you point one reason why not to be nice with ya?

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

Whatsoever contradicts my sense, I hate to see, and never can believe.