You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.