Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.