The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.