"I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity."

"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs."

"The only safe rule is to be sure that you are leading a life that would be worth living even if there were no heaven."

"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."

"To be a Christian is to be a little Christ."