See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.