God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.