Love is the world's river of life

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.