Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?