Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
He who stops being better stops being good.
For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other.
In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.
One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.