Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.