Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

And there is still the more occasion for such an alarm, because worldly-mindedness so easily and craftily besets the hearts of men.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, "hearts are broken, heads are turned".