Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.