"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."

"You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul."

"If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy yourself there."

"Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."

"There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him."