Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.