“My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere
“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman
“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us
“There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others
“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you