Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.