God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.