Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.