Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Life was so complicated a game that the devices of skill were liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
Justice is like the Kingdom of God – it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
