I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

We loved with a love that was more than love.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.