Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.