If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

But what is past my help is past my care.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Bad's the best of us.