The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.