Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.