God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.