Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.