Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

He who demands little gets it.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.