Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

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

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

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