What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.