Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.