All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.