And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.