Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

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.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.