No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.