Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
Example has far more followers than reason.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.