Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.