If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.