Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?